Duo from B.C. and Ontario take home championship on reality TV show Lego Masters | 24CA News
Stacey Roy of Kelowna, B.C., and Nick Della Mora of Toronto, Ont., had been topped the winners of Fox TV’s Lego Masters Season 3 in Los Angeles on Wednesday night time.
The pair outlasted rivals by way of 13 episodes, defeating Calgary firefighter duo Stephen Joo and Stephen Cassley and Vancouver siblings David and Emily Guedes to take house a trophy manufactured from yellow Lego bricks and $100,000 US, or about $134,000 Cdn.
Roy, producer of the TV present The Nerdy Bartender and host of the Twitch streaming present Cooking with Stacey, says she has been enjoying with Lego since she was a child.
“I used to build these amazing Lego towers with my dad and then topple them over.”
She says she began enjoying with Lego once more a number of years in the past when she began live-streaming her builds on Amazon and Twitch.
The exhibits caught the eye of Della Mora, who was streaming his personal Lego constructing present Brickin Nick on Twitch.
A self-described “diehard Lego fan,” he says he had been trying to find a accomplice to compete in Lego Masters after watching the present’s Seasons 1 and a couple of.
“I gotta find someone really fun to do it with,” he mentioned. “She loves Lego building, and she’s Canadian as well … when I reached out, she was super excited about it, and we went for it.”
‘Playing with Lego for the remainder of our lives’
Roy and Della Mora say it is a improbable interest.
“We should play with Lego for the rest of our lives,” she mentioned. “I always encourage adults in my life [to] scrap the adult colouring books [and] get yourself a Lego set — that is the ultimate thing for relaxation.”
It’s additionally enjoyable and satisfying, says Della Mora.
“When I discovered [Lego], I just had this natural attraction to it. I just really enjoyed the way the pieces clicked together … this just really clicks with how my brain works.”
Rough path to championship
Despite their enthusiasm, the pair’s path to the championship wasn’t a easy one: they gained the fourth episode with a well-received treehouse however had been virtually eradicated from the present for his or her low-rated creations within the seventh to tenth episodes.
But Roy says her group’s victory within the eleventh episode — the place they had been required to construct a race automotive — inspired them to maintain combating.
“[It] was a real turning point because we just got really excited again about building Lego and having fun and just adding all this play into our creations. We started to remind ourselves why we love building Lego and really put that into our builds.”
The pair says they put all their ardour and creativity into their closing creation, a bookshelf manufactured from Lego.
“When we built that bookshelf, we wanted it to feel like kids would want to go up closer to go explore all the different toys on [it],” Roy mentioned.
Della Mora says it is all within the creativeness.
“This is what I imagine my bookshelf doing while I was sleeping at night: my toys coming to life and playing around and doing all sorts of silly and crazy things.”
The Lego-built bookshelf will probably be on show on the Legoland resort in New York.
This weekend, the triumphant pair will go to a hospital in Memphis, the place they may reside stream a 24-hour Lego construct to lift funds for kids’s most cancers analysis.
Della Mora says their victory exhibits enjoying with Lego is greater than only a infantile pastime.
“If more people embrace that side of each other and just let people do the things they love, I think people would get out there and just do so many more amazing things.
“We positively want extra play and enjoyable on the earth.”
